Role: This class allows users to enter non-photographic records.
How/Who enters: Most of these records are entered remotely by authorized submitters.
Sample Query Scenario: Has anyone obtained intracellular recordings from muscle cells in a particular mutant?
Security: Once created, the only field that can be remotely updated by the original submitter is the publications field.
| Superclasses: | GENERIC_OBJECT | |
| DATA_ITEM | comments, primary_pub, related_pubs, source |
kind (closed set, REQUIRED). This field describes the nature of the data contained in the record field. Acceptable values are limited to {current, voltage, optical}
record. The actual data record or a graphical image of it.
description (TEXT, REQUIRED). This field gives a textual description of the data, describing the conditions under which the data were recorded, and drawing the reader’s attention to features in the data. Similar in nature to a legend on a figure. At least some description is required.
• What is the data type of the record attribute? Is it just a numerical vector? Or is it a GIF image of a graph?
• This class seems very under-specified. Need to develop the query scenario to understand better how one might go about searching for a specific record.